Wildfire Evacuation from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Operational Land Imager photo from NASA shows plumes of white smoke from large wildfire fires burning around Yellowknife. In the bottom left corner, the darker green area is Great Slave Lake. A deep brown burn scar can be seen in the upper left corner.

Heartbreaking and moving first-person account by climate refugee Michael Nabert of his evacuation from Yellowknife, the capital city of Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada.

Nabert joined thousands of Yellowknife’s residents leaving the city on Highway 3, a two-lane highway, heading south to Alberta.

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